Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part of the Western Hemisphere's family of nations. And yet, like the prewar U.S. isolationists, they hate to admit it. That was why suggestions that Canada sign the hemispheric defense treaty drawn up at Petropolis (see LATIN AMERICA) were so embarrassing. The thought of joining with the Pan American Union set off a rash of Canadian rationalization...
...will remain more dignified and also more effective by maintaining our own special relations with [the U.S.] than by assimilating our position to that of a group of 20 republics. . . . Let us cultivate good relations with Latin America in our own way and not as a cog in the Pan American machine...
...Ottawa Journal: "In a Pan American Union, Canada would almost inevitably side with the United States. Doing so, we should incite South American suspicion; have the Latin Republics believe that we were part of a North American bloc . . . subservient to a 'big stick' from Washington. Better . . . [to] be regarded as neutral, or, better still, as a friend...
Free v. Chosen Instruments. James M. Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, predicted that U.S. airlines flying transatlantic routes (Pan American, T.W.A., American Overseas) would soon be showing profits on Atlantic operations exceeding the airmail subsidies they receive from the Government. Landis discounted the danger of harmful competition from foreign-government-sponsored lines, which might force the U.S. to name and back a "chosen instrument" of its own. "What scares me now," said he, "is that we won't get effective foreign competition." Three days later, President Truman's Air Coordinating Committee, of which Landis...
...Pan Alley was crowding Communism's anthem, The Internationale. Last week, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed words and music of a catchy new song which "can be sung with great effect by large numbers of people." The composers: Hans Leo Hassler and Johann Sebastian Bach. The lyricist: Balladeer Tom Glazer, onetime baritone of the "Priority Ramblers," the United Federal Workers Union's singing team. Sample...